Announcing this in a press note here today, Ravi Kumar Narra, Founder, Shanti Chakra International, said that 69 years of independent India could counter the menace of small pox, polio, malaria, aids, cancer etc., but unfortunately ‘we have not taken any steps to eradicate the caste system which is increasing day by day. The caste system is creating barriers among the people. The need of the hour is to break the barriers of caste system to establish egalitarian society based on liberty, equality and fraternity. (NSS) :